spilie wrote:IMHO local agreements are no good they only serve to divide members, whats good and workable in one office is no good in another, but by introducing small changes in many offices RM then join the dots and roll out major changes saying "well it worked there". Also if local agreements are the union way why now are we being told that there must be no new talks at local level and we must have a national agreement, I`ll tell you why its because our great union chiefs are preparing to give away all we have left that being D2D and weekly pay, D2D not a rise for over 10 years and now we will give RM free reign, contracts coming in on various days through the week even saturdays, and just wait and see the rewards for us, the reward will be "well your lucky to have a job".And no i dont want strike action as i have said before lets all just work our hours (the ones RM say are more than enough for the job) and see what happens
This quote is from another thread ( http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 15&t=13902 ) and was posted 18 months ago, how right was Spilie.
Its worth reading again because some of the things in it seem to have come true in more ways than one, And some of the comments were Spot On.